The Blue Fairy Book, Cinderella, or the Little Glass Slipper, sentence 21
“Thou art in the right of it,” replied they; “it would make the people laugh to see a Cinderwench at a ball.”
Who acts: amends, right, people · What happens: reply, make, laugh, see · To what, where: Cinderwench, ball · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Cinderella, or the Little Glass Slipper. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (amends, right, people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 art | punct |
| 2 | Thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 3 art | nsubj |
| 3 | art | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 replied | ccomp |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 right | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 right | det |
| 6 | right | right | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 art | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 it | case |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 right | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 art | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 art | punct |
| 11 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 replied | nsubj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 make | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 make | punct |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 make | nsubj |
| 16 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 make | aux |
| 17 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 replied | parataxis |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 people | det |
| 19 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 laugh | nsubj |
| 20 | laugh | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 make | parataxis |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 see | mark |
| 22 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 laugh | advcl |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 Cinderwench | det |
| 24 | Cinderwench | Cinderwench | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 see | obj |
| 25 | at | at | ADP | _ | 27 ball | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 ball | det |
| 27 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 see | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 make | punct |
| 29 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | amends = amend | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | make in a quote | would | right | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material | |||||
| 3 | laugh in a quote | present | the people | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | see in a quote | to-infinitive | the people not said here | a Cinderwench | a ball | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cinderwench=Stimulus |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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